It always troubles me that Christians so often seek the supernatural intervention of God in our daily affairs. You know, “miracles.”
Can God perform miracles? Of course. Does He? Yes. Would I like to see more miracles? Without a doubt.
And yet, I sometimes think that the reason we don’t see more miracles is simply because God is performing miracles in our midst every moment of every day and they are so commonplace, we fail to see them.
The rising of the sun, the falling of the rain, a bird in flight, are all miracles of majestic glory. Oh sure, we can explain the physics and the science behind such occurrences, but even that is a miracle. Language and logic are no less a miracle than God separating light from darkness or dividing the Red Sea for His people to walk through on dry land.
Think about it! And in thinking, wonder even at your ability to think!
Away with this desiring after miracles, this prayer for divine intervention, and this longing for the supernatural. The “natural” is more than enough miracle for me. “It is illogical to suppose that God’s trademark is the supernatural, seeing that the natural processes are the ones he made” (Taylor, Christlike God, 217).
If anything, the greatest miracle of all is not found in the supernatural, but in the supranatural, that is, in God’s ability to enter into the “stuff” he made, and work within it, with it, and from it to accomplish His divine will.
You want a miracle? Don’t pray for a miracle. Pray instead to see the miracles that are exploding all around you every second of every day.
I was in a Bible study group one night when a young lady exclaimed, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if God just showed up and performed a miracle so that everyone would believe?!”. I responded, “Go to an AA meeting and you’ll see plenty of miracles like that.”
Hm. I have never been to an AA meeting, so I cannot say! I do believe God does miracles, of course, but I just think we look for the flashy interventions of God and miss the astonishing display of God’s fireworks going on around us every day.
you see miracles everytime you see a cancer patient given a clean bill of health and they resume their life. Example the two ladies on Good Morning America are proof, Robin is just finished her treatment and there is another lady who is still battling. However, they both look fantastic.
You have to hang your body from the promises that fit your situation, claim in faith that you have made it and your going through, and you hang on even if its with a finger nails grip. God’s Word is forever settled in Heaven, He’s not a man that he should lie, He will hasten His word to perform it and it does not return to Him void. He can be trusted and we should trust Him.
Yes, that is right. Thank you for the good reminder and encouragement.
I see that as the beauty of the world that God created.
When was the last time you thanked God for creating such beauty?
Yes! The amazing miracles that surround us every moment of every day in God’s creation!
Are you content with somebody being crippled or having cancer? I certainly am not.
Our world and our churches are so — out of alignment with God. These things that people call miracles, like healing people and such, should be commonplace. If they are not, then God’s will is not being done in our world.
Come to think of it, he said his will was not being done, didn’t he?
Seriously, I think we are so surrounded with doubt and unbelief… i.e. expecting bad things to happen, that we limit Gods effectiveness in our world.
Yes, I might have overstated my case. I do pray for God to heal and to act in mighty and powerful ways. But I also try to see the endless parade of miracles that pass before my eyes each and every day and thank God for His constant protection and action in my life and in this world.
We atmre also supposed to be the miracle others are searching for and hoping to see.
Right! We can be the answers to somebody else’s prayer, and sometimes, even the answers to our own.
I agree with Bob. After all someone once said “heal the sick, raise the dead, cure the leper and cast out demons” Matthew 10 v 8 and in Luke we read in ch 9 v 1 that jesus sent them out with power and authority to cast out demons and heal all diseases.
I grant you Jeremy that the very fact of us waking in the morning, breathing and all the other miracles of life are amazing, we call that the natural but we don’t have to ask and trust God in that, but when it comes to the supernatural, thats a different thing all together.
Yes I do pray for miracles every day, why, because he has bidden us to do so. And when He says go I go.
Yes, I overstated my case a bit. I do pray for divine intervention in multiple areas. And I see God act. I am just also trying to train my eyes to see the “mundane” miracles that happen every second of every day all around us.
Great Post Jeremy…
Asking permission to display a french translation of it on my blog…
Sure! Just link back to this original article. Thanks!